Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa has condemned Monday's botched coup attempt in Gabon reaffirming the principle of the African Union (AU) of the total rejection of all unconstitutional change of power.
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Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - Algeria has condemned the attempted coup on Monday in Gabon and welcomed the speedy restoration of constitutional order in the country, according to a statement issued by the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Paris, France (PANA) - France has condemned the coup attempt by a group of Gabonese soldiers on Monday in response to the health situation of President Ali Bongo Ondimba who is recovering in Morocco, said a statement issued the French Foreign ministry.
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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi's National Liberation Forces (FNL) leader Jacques Bigirimana on Monday called on Burundian and Rwandan Presidents Pierre Nkuruziza and Paul Kagame respectively to reconcile "and avoid a war in which their countries would have more to lose than to win".
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The National Forum for Democracy and Unity (FNDU), a Mauritanian opposition group of political parties, civil society organizations, trade union centres and independent personalities, has announced its refusal to respond to an invitation to take part in a march against "extremism and hatred" scheduled for Wednesday.
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New York US (PANA) - In the wake of the Somali Government's recent decision to expel the head of the UN's assistance mission, UNSOM, the Security Council on has cautioned that 2019 would be "a critical year" for the east African nation that is reconsituting itself after decades of conflict.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Russia's Ambassador to Libya, Ivan Molotkov, renewed his country's support for the government of national unity and consensus in Libya during a meeting with the President of the Presidential Council, Fayez al-Sarraj, on Sunday at the Council's headquarters in Tripoli.
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The DR Congo National Independent Electoral Commission of Congo (CENI) has compiled 53% of the results from the 30 December presidential election vote, Corneille Nangaa, the CENI Chairman said on Sunday.
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - Election irregularities may ignite a popular revolt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rather than the Church criticism of the way the electoral body was handling the tallying of the presidential election vote, a senior DRC cleric said on Sunday.
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - The DR Congo National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) is holding its General Assembly to review the status of the tallying and compilation of the results of the 30 December presidential elections before deciding on when to declare the provisional results, officials said on Sunday.
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – The National Independent Electoral Commission of Congo (CENI) has postponed the announcement of the presidential election results initially set for Sunday, saying it was making “good progress” in compilation but was not in receipt of all the results, poll officials said on Saturday.
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Paris, France (PANA) – The French government has deplored the decision of the Somali government to expel the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Somalia, also chief of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), Mr. Nicholas Fink Haysom,
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Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togolese Prime Minister Komi Sélom Klassou resigned on Friday following the parliamentary elections of 20 December, said a statement issued Saturday by the Presidency of the Republic in Lomé.
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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The Catholic Church has ruffled feathers with the National Independent Electoral Commission of Congo (CENI) after declaring it knows the winner of the 30 December presidential contest.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General said on Friday he “deeply regrets” the Somali Government’s decision to expel his Special Representative in the country, adding that he had “full confidence” in Nicholas Haysom’s abilities and track record as an international civil servant.
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Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The post-election environment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is “calm but tense” as the country waits for the results of the presidential poll, the UN Human Rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday.
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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Dawda Rowsey, a retired American soldier on Friday reacted to President Adama Barrow’s remarks on the questions of Gambian citizenship saying Barrow’s take was indeed welcome.
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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Presidential and parliamentary elections in Tunisia will be held this year as specified by the Constitution, a member of the Independent High Electoral Commission, Anour Ben Hassen, announced on Friday.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian Head of state Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz is to participate part in a march for national unity and cohesion on Wednesday called to denounce "all that harms national unity", the Office of the Prime Minister has announced.
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New York, US (PANA) - Somali Government efforts to build a lasting peace through political reform and transformation have progressed along a “positive trajectory” but everyone involved in the process needs to “pull in the same direction”, the UN Special Representative in the country told the Security Council on Thursday.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libyan government of national accord's Interior minister, Fethi Bachagha, on Thursday had discussion with the Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs of the UN Secretary General, Stephanie Williams, on the support of the international community to the security arrangements aiming to stabilize the country.
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Paris, France (PANA) – The French government has congratulated the new Secretary General of the International Francophonie Organisation (OIF), Louise Mushikiwabo, who took office on Thursday, while expressing conviction that she would make all arrangements to give the organisation a new impulse.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday indicated that it will return to the courts to ensure that former President Jacob Zuma will pay for his latest Gauteng High Court appeal against a judgment which ordered him to pay back the funds already incurred by his many court challenges.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Former Rwandan Foreign minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, on Thursday officially took office as secretary-general of the world community of French-speaking countries, also known as La Francophonie, in Paris, France, an official source confirmed to PANA in Kigali.
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The Netherlands government says it is willing to receive 49 migrants rescued off the Libyan coast by vessels of two German NGOs, Sea-Eye and Sea-Watch, according to a communiqué received by PANA on Thursday in Brussels.
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Brussels, Belgium (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government to lift the ban on internet access, imposed since Monday, after the the counting of votes of the 30 December presidential election began, according to a press statement it issued on Wednesday.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Frankly put, crises are now ruling a large part of Africa and what is often referred to as the people’s good governance is at stake. There is no crisis that rocks one country without its reverberation being felt in adjacent countries.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has asked local authorities to probe claims that a South African national is a member of a jihadist group operating in neighbouring Mozambique.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has been named a recipient of "Mandela Prize for Security 2018" by a jury of the Paris-based Mandela Institute, according to the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI).
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Niamey, Niger (PANA) – Nigerien president Mahamadou Issoufou on Monday expressed satisfaction with the economic progress made by his country that saw a 5.2% growth in 2018, which is over the 3% average for ECOWAS countries and 3.7% for world economies.
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Yaoundé, Cameroun (PANA) – In his traditional New Year message on Monday evening, the Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, reviewed 2018, gave new orientations for 2019 and vowed particularly that the defence forces would "neutralise war entrepreneurs", alluding to Anglophone separatists.
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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The reform process of the Ivorian Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) will start this month, President, Alassane Ouattara said in his New Year's address to the nation on Monday.
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – Foreign diplomats accredited to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have called upon the government to restore internet connection, lift media restriction and allow election observers access to the election result tallying centres of Sunday’s president Vote.
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - DR Congo opposition leader and front-runner for the presidency, Martin Fayulu, has praised the citizens of Beni and Butembo in the Eastern region for conducting a citizens election despite a decision to suspend voting in the Ebola-hit region until March.
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Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) – Counting of votes is continuing in Sunday's presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which was largely peaceful with only pockets of violence reported in parts of the country and incidences of technical failures of voting machines, the electoral body said.
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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Polling centres opened in the cobalt-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Sunday in a landmark vote to usher President Joseph Kabila out of power and to possibly restore peace to restive regions in the country’s Eastern region, which has largely been excluded from the vote.
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New York, US (PANA) - Last year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued “a red alert” over a range of dangers confronting the world, which “still persist” as 2019 looms. “These are anxious times for many, and our world is undergoing a stress test,” the UN chief said on Saturday in his message for the New Year.
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Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Polls officially opened in general elections in DR Congo on Sunday that will see the successor to President Joseph Kabila emerge, two years after he was expected to have stood down.
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Mombasa, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has opened up on a political settlement reached with opposition leader Raila Odinga who took a controversial oath as the peoples president earlier this year. Kenyatta said the deal is one of the reasons for his intensified fight against corruption.
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Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Abou el-Gheit, on Saturday strongly condemned the "terrorist" attack in Cairo on Friday that targeted a tourist bus, killing three Vietnamese tourists and a tourist guide.
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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - British Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, on Saturday reiterated his country's support for the national unity government in its fight against terrorism, after last Tuesday's suicide attack on the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tripoli left three dead.
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